From Stitch to Society: A Multi-Level and Participatory Approach to Design Research

Holroyd, A Twigger

doi:10.1162/desi_a_00448

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“…Kate Fletcher [26], for example, advocates for moving beyond the consumption of clothing towards deep engagement with wearing, altering, mending, and tending them. Similarly, Twigger Holroyd [27] sees significant potential for changing the fashion system by disrupting it with homemade clothing. Community groups are often seen as important points of contact for encouraging making and mending [28][29][30], a point further illustrated via the Stitching Together Network (https://stitchingtogether.net/, accessed on 27 November 2023).…”

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A Social Practices Approach to Encourage Sustainable Clothing Choices

Saunders,

Griffin,

Hackney

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The literature on sustainable clothing covers five key thematic areas: problems associated with fast fashion; sustainable fibre production; sustainable design protocols; corporate responsibility; sociological and social–psychological understandings; and pro-environmental behaviour changes. This article interweaves these approaches in a study that assesses the potential of experiential learning in clothes making, mending, and modifying workshops to help generate new social practices. The workshop design drew on the five key thematic areas and purposively provided participants with infrastructures and equipment, facilitators, and peer-to-peer support and dialogue as means to help them collaboratively generate new skills, new senses of meaning, and more sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting in relation to clothes. This article reveals that our social practices approach encouraged research participants to positively uptake pro-environmental clothing choices. Thematic qualitative analysis of a small sample of participants’ wardrobe audit interviews, informal discussions, reflective videos, and reflective diaries illustrates nuanced and dynamic individual responses to the workshops and other project interventions. Nuances are contingent on factors including styles, creativity, habits, and budgets. We argue that, in order to mainstream the benefits of our approach, it is necessary to normalise approaches to clothing and style that sit outside of, or adjacent to, mainstream fashion, including clothes making, mending, and modifying practices.

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A Social Practices Approach to Encourage Sustainable Clothing Choices

Saunders,

Griffin,

Hackney

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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“…It can also be empowerment to be creative [49] and to imagine different futures, and to see oneself as a creator of the material future we are heading towards [50]. Interacting with the material world can also contribute to sustainability, as consumers learn to interact with everyday objects, such as clothes, and repair and redesign them instead of only buying, using and discarding [51]. In light of the ongoing global e-waste crisis due to the obsolescence of ubiquitous technological artefacts, industrial players should obviously produce more sustainable devices [52][53][54] but, until this happens, an individual user's ability to repair through applying maker knowledge is a powerful expression of agency [55] and is supported by the recently launched Right to Repair movement, while makerspaces at e-waste sites are also empowering local makers [56,57].…”

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“…This can lead to low participation rates and alienation of the majority of local communities from makerspaces, as they develop a feeling that a makerspace is not easily approachable [69]. Sometimes making activities might simply be uninteresting to the majority of people [51] or feel too intimidating, for example because of the high technology used [69]. Certain groups might also be more vulnerable to alienation, for example because of language issues making it more difficult to interact with other makers [43,44].…”

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“…New technology is also constantly becoming easier and cheaper to use, which makes digital making accessible to more people [13]. Several authors also emphasise the importance of having technological help available in a makerspace, especially when including groups like children and people with disabilities [33,34,44], and publishing proper, clear and detailed instructions online for aspiring makers to use [13,37,51]. When looking to include different socioeconomic groups, the physical place of the makerspace plays an important role as well, and locating it in a diverse neighbourhood probably leads to a more diverse maker community [43,46].…”

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How Open Is the Maker Movement? Integrative Literature Review of the Openness Practices in the Global Maker Movement

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This article explores the multiple meanings of the concept of openness in the global maker movement. Openness is viewed as one of the key principles of the maker movement. As the global maker movement is a bricolage of diverse and situated practices and traditions, there are also many different interpretations and ways of practicing openness. We have explored this diversity with an integrative literature review, relying on the Web of Science™ database. We identified three interrelated but also, in part, mutually contested approaches to openness. Firstly, openness often refers to applying open hardware. Secondly, it is in many cases related to the inclusion and empowerment of various groups in making. Thirdly, openness appears to be seen as a means to pursue economic growth through increasing innovation activity and entrepreneurship. Our results also highlight the substantial barriers encountered by makers while aiming to open up their practices. These barriers include: value conflicts in which openness is overridden by other important values; exclusion of lower income groups from making due to a lack of resources; and difficulties in maintaining long-term activities. The different meanings of openness together with the barriers create tensions within the maker movement while implementing openness. We propose that engaging in a reflexive futures dialogue on the consequences of these tensions can enhance the maker movement to become more open, inclusive and resilient.

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“…In openly shared processes, sharing post-use (i.e. repair, reuse, upgrade) related knowledge along with open outcomes was also a crucial, yet overlooked aspect for actually opening up those processes (Holroyd, 2017).…”

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Framing Open Design through Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications: A Systematic Literature Review

Bakırlıoğlu

Kohtala

2019

Human–Computer Interaction

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This study reports on the results of a systematic literature review on 'open design' in academic fields including and beyond design and HCI. The review investigates how studies are framed as open design and open-source design (including 'open hardware'): how researchers contribute to conceptual theorizing about open design or study its practical operationalization, in do-ityourself 'making,' manufacturing and practices in-between these domains. Most of the papers reviewed were empirical studies from diverse fields. Open design was analyzed not only as contributions and solutions, but also as open-to-participate processes, openly shared processes, and open, closed, and modular (open and closed) outcomes. Various research fields presented an open design framing as an alternative to the status quo: new ways to do business and/or to foster socio-environmental sustainability. On the manufacturing side, open design was sought especially to accelerate innovation cycles; on the making side, it was espoused to foster democratization. However, the studies reviewed indicated that companies do not appear to develop much beyond business-as-usual. From the research perspective, the conceptual potential of open design to promote sustainability saw little practical exploration. Additionally, issues around open design community governance Yekta Bakırlıoğlu

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From Stitch to Society: A Multi-Level and Participatory Approach to Design Research

Cited by 5 publications

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A Social Practices Approach to Encourage Sustainable Clothing Choices

A Social Practices Approach to Encourage Sustainable Clothing Choices

How Open Is the Maker Movement? Integrative Literature Review of the Openness Practices in the Global Maker Movement

Framing Open Design through Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications: A Systematic Literature Review

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